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Pressure was last night heaped on the Government over the future of the £32 billion high-speed railway link from London to Birmingham and beyond when Conservative transport experts damned the plan as disastrously flawed.

After a fortnight of embarrassing revelations during a judicial review of HS2, the Conservative Transport Group is urging the Government to go back to the drawing board.

The group, a special-interest arm of the Conservative Party, is hugely critical of the Department for Transport and its subsidiary HS2 Ltd in a letter that Patrick McLoughlin, the Transport Secretary, is due to receive today.